SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 18 31
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing SQL 92 58 48
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.76% 7.91% 5.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.30% 30.69% 17.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 49 35
10th Percentile £329 £357 £350
25th Percentile £409 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -10.26% -6.02%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £613
90th Percentile £675 £575 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £30.55 - -
25th Percentile £43.91 - £25.26
Median hourly rate £53.83 - £27.13
75th Percentile £55.94 - £28.99
90th Percentile £57.63 - -
South West median hourly rate £53.83 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +49.53% +20.00% -58.90%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 337 189 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 24.76% 25.78% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 106 124
10th Percentile £380 £328 £366
25th Percentile £450 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £508 £538
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 46 74
10th Percentile £56.00 £63.75 £65.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £72.81
90th Percentile - £75.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.52%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) Apache
2 3 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.09%) Traefik
Applications
1 12 (13.04%) Spreadsheet
2 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (7.61%) NEC Housing
1 7 (7.61%) Oracle Payroll
2 4 (4.35%) Maximo
3 3 (3.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.09%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.57%) Power Platform
2 16 (17.39%) dbt
2 16 (17.39%) GCP
3 15 (16.30%) AWS
3 15 (16.30%) Azure
4 11 (11.96%) Snowflake
5 10 (10.87%) OCI
6 7 (7.61%) Power Automate
7 5 (5.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (5.43%) Cloud Composer
7 5 (5.43%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.43%) PowerApps
7 5 (5.43%) Vertex AI
8 4 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (4.35%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (4.35%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (4.35%) Cloud Run
8 4 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.43%) DNS
2 4 (4.35%) WAN
3 2 (2.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.57%) Power BI
2 9 (9.78%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (8.70%) Tableau
4 7 (7.61%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.52%) RDBMS
5 6 (6.52%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.43%) BigQuery
6 5 (5.43%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.43%) Looker
7 4 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (4.35%) GIS
7 4 (4.35%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.26%) Metadata
9 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.17%) Power Query
9 2 (2.17%) Spatial Data
10 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.70%) JIRA
2 4 (4.35%) Git
2 4 (4.35%) Liquibase
3 2 (2.17%) GitLab
3 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 17 (18.48%) Public Sector
2 16 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.61%) Finance
5 3 (3.26%) Banking
5 3 (3.26%) Local Government
5 3 (3.26%) Marketing
6 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (27.17%) Developer
2 22 (23.91%) Data Engineer
3 19 (20.65%) Senior
4 16 (17.39%) Oracle Developer
5 11 (11.96%) Software Developer
6 10 (10.87%) Architect
7 9 (9.78%) Analyst
8 8 (8.70%) GCP Engineer
9 7 (7.61%) Applications Support
9 7 (7.61%) GCP Data Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) AWS Data Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) Senior Applications Support
10 6 (6.52%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) Support Officer
11 5 (5.43%) Data Analyst
11 5 (5.43%) GCP Architect
11 5 (5.43%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Snowflake Engineer
12 4 (4.35%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.30%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (9.78%) Terraform
3 6 (6.52%) REST
3 6 (6.52%) SOAP
4 5 (5.43%) JSON
5 4 (4.35%) HTML
5 4 (4.35%) JDBC
5 4 (4.35%) Middleware
5 4 (4.35%) XML
6 3 (3.26%) RESTful
7 2 (2.17%) .NET
7 2 (2.17%) Kafka
7 2 (2.17%) React
7 2 (2.17%) Web Services
8 1 (1.09%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.09%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.09%) JMS
8 1 (1.09%) Node.js
8 1 (1.09%) OAuth
8 1 (1.09%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.52%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.17%) Clustering
4 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.09%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.43%) Linux
2 1 (1.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.87%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (33.70%) Data Modelling
3 28 (30.43%) Data Engineering
3 28 (30.43%) DevOps
4 26 (28.26%) Analytics
5 19 (20.65%) Decision-Making
6 18 (19.57%) Agile
6 18 (19.57%) AI
7 15 (16.30%) ETL
7 15 (16.30%) Validation
8 13 (14.13%) Data Pipeline
8 13 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (13.04%) CI/CD
10 11 (11.96%) Software Engineering
11 10 (10.87%) Information Security
12 9 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (9.78%) Data Architecture
12 9 (9.78%) Visualisation
13 8 (8.70%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.17%) Python
2 21 (22.83%) PL/SQL
3 7 (7.61%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (5.43%) Java
5 2 (2.17%) C#
5 2 (2.17%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.09%) Bash
6 1 (1.09%) LookML
6 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (22.83%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.65%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.78%) Degree
4 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.57%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.87%) QA
3 9 (9.78%) GDPR
4 2 (2.17%) PMO
5 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.26%) Docker
3 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.17%) Ansible
3 1 (1.09%) CASB
3 1 (1.09%) Istio
Vendors
1 26 (28.26%) Oracle
2 13 (14.13%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.96%) Google
4 7 (7.61%) NEC
5 6 (6.52%) Databricks
6 5 (5.43%) webMethods
7 4 (4.35%) IBM
8 3 (3.26%) Facebook
8 3 (3.26%) SAP
9 2 (2.17%) MuleSoft
9 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.09%) Alteryx